"could have derived from" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that may have been created or influenced by a source, and you aren't sure if that source is the definite origin. For example, "This new software design could have derived from an existing program."
The fanciful name could have derived from a science fiction television series, Stargate.
The only mystery was how such choreography and performing could have derived from the creators of the two dances that came before.
Although Greek remained Antioch's lingua franca, Rome imposed its shell of administration and customs: Emperors built public baths (several were found) and boulevards; they introduced gladiatorial combat and staged wild animal hunts (the Worcester Hunt mosaic could have derived from those bloody entertainments).
All available data support the recognition of the new species Primulina cardaminifolia and suggest that it could have derived from homoploid hybrid speciation.
Endress has also found small lenses of pristine basaltic glass, which could have derived from the Pillow Ridge subglacial mound near Mount Edziza.
In doing so, Percival threw away the potential advantages he could have derived from the 6,000 engineers under his command and perhaps missed his best chance to blunt the danger posed by the Japanese tanks.
On the other hand, Blåsjö claimed there was enough difference between Copernicus's planetary models and those of the late Islamic astronomers that Copernicus could have derived them directly from ancient models.
Therefore, it is not clear whether or not the study subjects could have derived more substantive benefits from higher doses of fluoxetine.
He showed how to derive transitivity of equality from this; he could have derived symmetry as well but did not.
In short, mathematics is useful, not because it allows you to derive conclusions that you couldn't have derived from nominalistically respectable premises alone, but rather because it makes the derivation of those (nominalistically respectable) conclusions easier than it might otherwise have been.
Could "scam" have derived from the expression "'S cam é," meaning a trick or a deception?
